And tried to get a battleship named after himself.
Bullshit. No one makes battleships anymore, they're obsolete. A cruiser can easily pack enough punch, including SAMs, anti-ship and cruise missiles. Humongous guns are not a thing anymore. For that you just call the flyboys on the carrier.
In this case sublimation (from solid direct to gas) not evaporation. But this does not cause matter to cease to exist. There are a few problems here. On earth you have many ways to transmit heat - conduction, convection and radiation. In space you only have a single way to transmit ANY sort of energy - radiation - unless you make physical contact with something. The radiation effect of a nuclear blast is pretty much instantaneous. By the time the bomb casing and bomb core has flown apart, you're not getting any more radiation. On Earth the initial radiated heat heats everything in its path, including air. But the giant crater you expect isn't caused primarily by that radiated heat, it's caused by superheated air - because hot gases expand and suddenly superheated gases expand violently,gouge holes, and produce shock fronts that do the majority of the damage.
So let's say you manage to turn a thin layer of the surface facing your bomb into gas and plasma, once your source of radiation is gone (almost instantly) guess what happens to it? It cools and turns solid again. You haven't changed its direction much. Some of it will have headed off into space due to diffusion. A fraction of it will be re-captured by your massive rock. And you've turned a 30 billion kg piece of rock headed towards Earth into a 29.99 billion kg piece of rock (and a 0.005 billion kg cloud of tiny particles) headed toward Earth. Well done? How many of those bombs do you have?
Useless except for objects so far away you have years and years to spare for this to exert any sort of force. While in theory gravity is dependent on M1 and M2.... if one of the masses is so large (and if you're afraid of catastrophic asteroids, you ARE only dealing with large masses) compared to the other, the effect of the smaller one is negligible. It's like saying you're going to change the axis of the world by sending a shipload of rocks from the equator to the north pole. Yes, in theory. In practice, you'll never measure it.
A better idea would be to have that ship provide constant thrust. Even an amount as tiny as provided by an ion drive will have a much more measurable effect than gravity alone given enough time. But that's the second part of the problem. Time. If you're good enough to detect a potential collision decades and even centuries out, then you are going to have a LOT of rocks that you are going to need to move...
The assumption here being your detection gear is good enough to let you determine years in advance which objects definitely need a nudge years in advance even after taking into account travel time to get there and set your solar sails up. Otherwise you end up chasing a whole lot of "might cause problems" rocks, which is the best we can do now, and then who is to say you won't be turning a near miss into a certain hit...
Most of the damage from thermonuclear weapons comes from a fast moving shock front of air. I still don't understand how exploding one in space where there is no air is supposed to alter the trajectory of a hugely massive object - which is the only kind you're going to be worried about in the first place.
If you want a classic example of "whataboutism", take XXongo's posts, where twice he accuses me of using "whataboutism" without actually understand what "whataboutism" is. Metaphor and allegory are not "whataboutism". Answering claims of "OrangeManBad" with "OMG Nixon was terrible too!", those are "whataboutism".
That's not how climate models work. Every time it fails to predict something because it's not accurate, they say "oops, we failed to account for X" and then do some tweaks to the model, until it fails to predict again, so they tweak again, etc. The idea is that the model will be finished once they don't have to tweak it anymore. Unfortunately no one has pointed out to them that a model that can't actually predict anything isn't a model any more than a 3 year old's scribble is a doctoral thesis.
So is continental drift. Earthquakes kill thousands of people every decade. I propose a new tax to prevent continental drift and deal with all these earthquakes.
If they can't deal with the "stress" of being a facebook moderator I wonder how they'd deal with the stress of being a taxi driver or the stress of cleaning the toilet at McDonald's...
NO! We can put out infinite numbers of cartoon based superhero stories all with essentially the same plotline and people will line up to see them forever! It has to be bombers! No wait... it could be.... RUSSIAN bombers!!!
streaming an album over the internet more than 27 times will likely use more energy than it takes to produce and manufacture a CD.
Completely failing to account for the energy cost in disposing of the CD and returning its constituents to the ecosystem. And it's not just the CD - it's the CD case, the plastic it is wrapped in, the store receipt, the plastic bag from the store. Even if they accounted for all this on the manufacture side (I doubt it), they didn't account for it on the disposal side. No one ever thinks about the garbage, which is why we end up in the mess we are currently in. It takes a lot more than 27 listens worth of energy. At the end of the day heat dissipates a lot faster than plastic. Our planet constantly sheds heat on its night side. A few GigaJoules here and there makes no difference.
How many people will die of old age before research into preventing aging becomes legal?
Oh vanity of vanities - you want to live forever and you want to have children too. What could possibly go wrong? You should be content that you can now live almost twice as long as most people did in the middle ages.
Right now all medical research is banned, unless it is to prevent or cure a disease, and aging doesn't count.
This is simply not true. Life extension research exists and is carried out by Harvard and UCLA to name a few.
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And tried to get a battleship named after himself.
Bullshit. No one makes battleships anymore, they're obsolete. A cruiser can easily pack enough punch, including SAMs, anti-ship and cruise missiles. Humongous guns are not a thing anymore. For that you just call the flyboys on the carrier.
There are those who say that this could actually be WORSE.
evaporating parts of it?
In this case sublimation (from solid direct to gas) not evaporation. But this does not cause matter to cease to exist. There are a few problems here. On earth you have many ways to transmit heat - conduction, convection and radiation. In space you only have a single way to transmit ANY sort of energy - radiation - unless you make physical contact with something. The radiation effect of a nuclear blast is pretty much instantaneous. By the time the bomb casing and bomb core has flown apart, you're not getting any more radiation. On Earth the initial radiated heat heats everything in its path, including air. But the giant crater you expect isn't caused primarily by that radiated heat, it's caused by superheated air - because hot gases expand and suddenly superheated gases expand violently,gouge holes, and produce shock fronts that do the majority of the damage.
So let's say you manage to turn a thin layer of the surface facing your bomb into gas and plasma, once your source of radiation is gone (almost instantly) guess what happens to it? It cools and turns solid again. You haven't changed its direction much. Some of it will have headed off into space due to diffusion. A fraction of it will be re-captured by your massive rock. And you've turned a 30 billion kg piece of rock headed towards Earth into a 29.99 billion kg piece of rock (and a 0.005 billion kg cloud of tiny particles) headed toward Earth. Well done? How many of those bombs do you have?
Useless except for objects so far away you have years and years to spare for this to exert any sort of force. While in theory gravity is dependent on M1 and M2.... if one of the masses is so large (and if you're afraid of catastrophic asteroids, you ARE only dealing with large masses) compared to the other, the effect of the smaller one is negligible. It's like saying you're going to change the axis of the world by sending a shipload of rocks from the equator to the north pole. Yes, in theory. In practice, you'll never measure it.
A better idea would be to have that ship provide constant thrust. Even an amount as tiny as provided by an ion drive will have a much more measurable effect than gravity alone given enough time. But that's the second part of the problem. Time. If you're good enough to detect a potential collision decades and even centuries out, then you are going to have a LOT of rocks that you are going to need to move...
The assumption here being your detection gear is good enough to let you determine years in advance which objects definitely need a nudge years in advance even after taking into account travel time to get there and set your solar sails up. Otherwise you end up chasing a whole lot of "might cause problems" rocks, which is the best we can do now, and then who is to say you won't be turning a near miss into a certain hit...
Most of the damage from thermonuclear weapons comes from a fast moving shock front of air. I still don't understand how exploding one in space where there is no air is supposed to alter the trajectory of a hugely massive object - which is the only kind you're going to be worried about in the first place.
If you want a classic example of "whataboutism", take XXongo's posts, where twice he accuses me of using "whataboutism" without actually understand what "whataboutism" is. Metaphor and allegory are not "whataboutism". Answering claims of "OrangeManBad" with "OMG Nixon was terrible too!", those are "whataboutism".
When your error bar is bigger than what you're actually predicting, maybe it's not a model problem.
Yes that's why it's called reductio ad absurdum
So is posting whether you will or will not going to see a movie. That's not opinion, that's your future intention.
Are you going to jump off this bridge with a broken bungee cord? Why not? Do you have first hand knowledge of broken cord bungee jumping?
When did the world's glaciers START melting I wonder? Oh wait... 2.6 million years ago.
That's not how climate models work. Every time it fails to predict something because it's not accurate, they say "oops, we failed to account for X" and then do some tweaks to the model, until it fails to predict again, so they tweak again, etc. The idea is that the model will be finished once they don't have to tweak it anymore. Unfortunately no one has pointed out to them that a model that can't actually predict anything isn't a model any more than a 3 year old's scribble is a doctoral thesis.
Climate change is real
So is continental drift. Earthquakes kill thousands of people every decade. I propose a new tax to prevent continental drift and deal with all these earthquakes.
Those get CEO and finance positions.
If they can't deal with the "stress" of being a facebook moderator I wonder how they'd deal with the stress of being a taxi driver or the stress of cleaning the toilet at McDonald's...
Russian troll farm.
QED.
NO! We can put out infinite numbers of cartoon based superhero stories all with essentially the same plotline and people will line up to see them forever! It has to be bombers! No wait... it could be.... RUSSIAN bombers!!!
History teaches us that usually people have to be actually starving to death before considering revolution, so don't hold your breath.
It's an ID card. What, did you expect to be able to buy one by mail order?
Never underestimate unions, either.
Modern music comes with its own DRM built in which makes it impossible for me to listen to it. All I hear is noise.
streaming an album over the internet more than 27 times will likely use more energy than it takes to produce and manufacture a CD.
Completely failing to account for the energy cost in disposing of the CD and returning its constituents to the ecosystem. And it's not just the CD - it's the CD case, the plastic it is wrapped in, the store receipt, the plastic bag from the store. Even if they accounted for all this on the manufacture side (I doubt it), they didn't account for it on the disposal side. No one ever thinks about the garbage, which is why we end up in the mess we are currently in. It takes a lot more than 27 listens worth of energy. At the end of the day heat dissipates a lot faster than plastic. Our planet constantly sheds heat on its night side. A few GigaJoules here and there makes no difference.
How many people will die of old age before research into preventing aging becomes legal?
Oh vanity of vanities - you want to live forever and you want to have children too. What could possibly go wrong? You should be content that you can now live almost twice as long as most people did in the middle ages.
Right now all medical research is banned, unless it is to prevent or cure a disease, and aging doesn't count.
This is simply not true. Life extension research exists and is carried out by Harvard and UCLA to name a few.
That's why the requisites are young, female and virgin.